BECK
A Dog's Life
Secretary Krug tu.
No administration in a i. ... - has had as many
changes in the cabinet and top oificiala as that of Presi
dent Truman, and the swinging of the axe suggests a
purge. The latest to go is Julius A. Krug, secretary of
the interior since March, 1946, considered one of the
government's most able administrators. It was the gen
eral impression that he was making good, at least he
' got along fairly well with both congress and the public.
Neither the president nor Krug, at this writing, have
made any announcement of the reason for Krug's resigna
tion. There are rumors that Mr. Truman was displeased
by Krug's attitude before the 1948 elections, and the
way he is handling some projects, and his appeals for
funds direct to congress instead of the budget office.
The president has appointed Undersecretary of the
Interior Oscar L. Chapman, 53, as Krug's successor; a
veteran of years in government service, and a favorite
of Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle who seems
to be the present White House boy of Mr. Truman. Chap
man's appointment puts two Coloradans in the cabinet.
Chapman was "advance man" for President Truman's
western campaign travels last year, and was credited with
much of the success of the tours. Krug, on the other hand,
was roundly criticized by the party faithful for not cam
paigning more ardently in 1948. Krug spoke for Mr.
Truman in the pre-convention campaigning, but was not
as active in speech-making thereafter as some of his cabi
net colleagues.
Commenting upon differences between the president
and Krug, Associated Press dispatches say:
"There have been other differences between Krug and Mr.
Truman since then. The president recently vetoed a Navajo
rehabilitation bill because of an amendment, said to have been
accepted by K.rt'g, which would have made the Indians subject
to state laws. The president's comments on two recent recla
mation proposals also appeared critical of the six-foot-four,
200-pound-plus 'baby' of the cabinet. He reluctantly approved
one, but vetoen the other on grounds that the interior depart
ment's reclamation bureau had not established Its feasibility."
Krug made his reputation in federal government when
he was with the office of production management, later
the war production board. In 1943 he was given full author
ity over power utilities. Later he took charge of vital
war materials as vice chairman of WPB.
He went into the navy in 1944, but was recalled the same
year to become head of WPB. Truman said the job he
accomplished there was "little short of miraculous."
A Fine Railroader Retires
Announcement that J. A. Ormandy of Portland, general
passenger agent for the Southern Pacific in the north
west, will end 41 years of continuous service in the com
pany by taking voluntary retirement under the pension
plan December 1 will be received with regret by his many
friends and the public he served so courteously and the
company he served so faithfully and efficiently for so
long a period.
Beginning as a telegrapher he worked in many stations,
was transferred to the passenger department In Portland
In 1911 and made office manager. In 1920 he was advanced
to assistant general passenger agent, and promoted to his
present position In 1923 which position he has held con
tinuously since, succeeding the late John M. Scott, who
was equally affable and popular.
Ormandy served the company through the trying times
of two world wars and the boom and depression years
between, the most colorful and the most trying periods
in the company's history. The transportation of hundreds
of thousands of troops in both wars was under his juris
diction. Ormandy has been active in Portlnnd civic affairs, was
past president of Portland Advertising club and of the
Rose Carnival, in the Chamber of Commerce directorate
and other organizations as well as active in Masonic
circles.
For the Southern Pacific he has always been a trouble
shooter. When Willamette floods cut off auto transporta
tion across the Salem bridge, a phone message to Ormandy
always secured a shuttle service across the river. When
rail transportation jams occurred Ormandy inspired relief
measures.
It must have been the courteous, considerate and oblig
ing service of Ormandy and other officials like him to the
public that inspired the railroad company to adopt its
slogan, "The Friendly Southern Pacific," and he certainly
lived up to it. May good luck attend him in his well
earned retirement.
Norblad On a CVA
Congressman Norblad of this district has joined the
ranks of those in opposition to President Truman's pet
scheme of a Columbia Valley Administration for the re
gion. No sooner had Norblad made known his views than
he was jumped on because he hadn't "clarified" his views
which called for 'local" initiative to join with existing
governmental agencies to develop the Pacific Northwest.
It is difficult to undersetand what needs clarifying in
this position of Norblad's.
His suggestion encompasses the realm of states' cooperat
ing with the federal government. Perhaps that is some
thing that is so old in theory but so seldom followed in
practice that it needs "clarifying."
Norblad's stand in opposition to the proposed CVA plan
is not one that fights the idea of a CVA merely because
it happens to have been suggested by a democrat when
the congressman is a republican. Norblad's position is
one that seeks to encourage local and state units to work
with the federal government instead of letting a "group
sitting behind a mahogany desk in far-off Washington"
do all the directing.
The paralyzing tendency gradually to surrender more
and more "local" power and initiative to the federal gov
ernment is a tendency that Norblad recognizes in his
statement of position. It is a tendency that will become
more and more of an admission of growing "statism."
Norblad's call is issued against that tendency.
Perhaps Norblad didn't make that point as clear as
he might have. But the inference is certainly there as
plain as is the tendency itself.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Armistice Day Finds French
'Merci Train' Still Expressive
By DREW PEARSON
Hays, Kansas An old French boxcar ends its journey In Kan
sas today.
It has crossed one ocean, carried troops to a score of battle
fronts and toured every county in Kansas. Probably a junk
dealer wouldn't give more than 20 bucks for it; but this old car
and the keep- gaa.
diplomats. And It msy be that
in the long run they can do as
much or more than ambassa
dors when not hampered by
Iron Curtains.
This is in direct contrast to
what happened 31 years ago af
ter the armistice of 1918. At that
time, the American people, idea
listic, inexperienced in the field
of foreign affairs, were inclined
to think that all they had to do
was sign a peace treaty and
then forget about it. Peace, they
believed, was something in
scribed on beribboned parch
ments which one left to diplo
mats. So, shortly after the armistice
of 1918, most of the American
people went back to work; the
U.S. senate decreed that we
should have nothing to do with
Europe; and big business con
centrated on chasing the al-
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
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BY DON UPJOHN
United States Senator Morse at Waller hall last night told a
little unwritten history in connection with the accident at the
state fair stadium when he was tossed from buggy at the horse
show and sustained injuries which sent him to the hospital. The
senator was laughing about the ribbings he has received since
as a horseman
sakes inside it
represent a mil
lion dollars'
worth of senti
ment. No one In
France, when
the work of
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boxcar, with 48
others, for their - 41
friends in Ame- D,,w r""
rica, ever dreamed what would
happen when the cars arrived.
One is enshrined on the old
state capital grounds in Louisi
ana; another stands in the capi
tal grounds at Bismarck, N.D.;
another is located at Olympia,
the capital of Washington; while
Minnesota and Mississippi have
enshrined their boxcars on their
state fair grounds.
Nor did anyone in France
dream that the contents of these mighty dollar.
cars, ranging from the flag that "Back to normalcy" was the
flew over Verdun in 1914 to watchword thrown out by War
mere dolls given by the poorer ren Harding, and generally
children of Paris, would be dis- speaking correctly called the
played in museums throughout tune for the country.
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side story of
what occurred
at the stadium.
He says when
he was tossed to
the ground he
lost conscious
ness and for 10
minutes or so
was out like a
light. The doc
tors, he found
out afterwards, let him lie for a
short time but when he was
picked up and carried away on
a stretcher he was still uncon
scious. As he was being carried
out the crowd as a sympathetic
gesture gave him a round of ap
plause. As the applause rippled
over the stadium the senator's
hand went up in salute. This,
too, he didn't know about until
one of the doctors told him later.
Said the doctor, "you're the first
patient I've ever had who was
still a politician even when unconscious."
ed Britishers are so sensitive
they even turn down bargain
prices currently being offered by
London's barbers. The barbers,
figuring there's not quite so
much work to trimming a fring
ed noggin, have been quietly
knocking sixpence (seven cents)
off the bill if the customer's
head is bare on top. A regular
haircut costs two shillings (28
cents). One-men's hairdresser
in the financial district disclos
ed that some of the more vain
baldpatcs have "indignantly in
sisted upon paying the full
price."
and Newark, N.J., to the capital
rotundas of Wisconsin, Ohio and
Arkansas, to the huge exhibit
arranged by Grover Whalen in
New York City, into which thou
sands of people streamed every
day.
We know a lot nf chaps around
here who'll figure from forego
ing paragraph that for once the
British are right.
It has been nine months now
since the French people sent
their boxcars to the people of
America, but the echoes of
friendship are still reverberating
through big city libraries and
small cnnnfrv EfVinnls nr rar
ried in exhibits throughout the And ,tne know that when they
state merely trusted diplomats in the
. ... . past, we have had wars.
Wisconsin, like Kansas, has Thereforej individuai A.mer-
But after the V-E and V-J
days of this last war, it has been
different.
The American people, it is
true, are tired. Some of them are
worse than tired. They are dis
couraged and cynical. But they
also know that if we had done
our part toward the rest of the
world in the 1930s, we would
not be burying our war dead in
the 1940s.
Above everything else, the
American people are determined
that there shall be no more war.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
'War Loves to Seek Its
Victims in the Young'
By HAL BOYLE
New York UP) Thirty-one years ago today bloodshed ceased
in the most stupendous war mankind had known.
This Armistice after four years of conflict turned out to be
only a pause that refreshed the world for an even deadlier war,
the issues of which are still unsettled.
i can t tninKe
of anything bet-
ter to present , ,
on this anniver-, I
sary than the
it l. i ,n
uiuuiiu tcic- .fjr, .
brated men of -)
tne pasi nave .,
held on war .
and peace.
"The bird of war Is not the
eagle but the stork." Charles
Francis Potter, birth control ad
vocate. "Worse than war Is the fear
of war." Seneca.
"Peace shall not prevail rave
i with aword in her hand."
' Bernard Shaw.
are
Here
few:
'Love thy
This doesn't apply to the sen
ator, but we can hardly agree
with the doctor in foregoing in
stance. There has been many a
man a politician and still unconscious.
Local Barbers Please Note!
London W Some bald-head-
La Grande, Ore. U.R From
now on Ron Carroll is going to
be a two-gun hunter. Carroll,
17, and three companions hiked
three miles to Morgan Lake with
their shotguns in the hope of
bagging some ducks. On arrival
they found no ducks but spotted
a big herd of elk. The lads hot
footed it home for their rifles
and headed back, leaving their
shotguns behind. When they
reached the lake this time, the
elk had vanished but the lake
was covered with ducks.
it is still touring every county;
and, after this tour is over, Wis
consin plans to box the French
gifts and send them 'out on a
five-year program of display in
individual schools. Yet Wiscon
sin is supposed to be a Germani
American state.
Another by-product of this
French merci train has been mil
lions of letters sent from the
children of the United States to
the children of France. This may
start a chain of friendly corres
pondence lasting into the years.
It would take several newspa
per columns to describe all the
steps taken by all the 48 states
to show , their appreciation of
France's appreciation.
But the most significant part
of
cans, tired as some of them are,
are quite willing to help the di
plomats. That's why there have been
so many CARE packages sent to
Europe. That's why several mil
lion letters deluged Italy during
its elections and helped win the
battle for democracy. That's
why 20,000,000 Americans con
tributed to the Friendship Train.
And that's why every American
was pleased and delighted when
the people of France unexpect
edly showed their appreciation
by sending us their Merci Train.
For peace is pretty much like
matrimony.
You can't quit working at ma
trimony immediately after the
marriage license is signed. And
Couldn't Put English on This One
Los Angeles W) While Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Johnson were
visiting Mexico, they bought a 2-year-old parrot named
Loreto.
They discovered that the bird doesn't understand Eng
lish. Ticket buyers at the Union station became bewildered
when they heard a plaintive Spanish voice coming from a 60
foot high chandelier.
"Wen, Loreto . . . Bien, Loreto," the voice croaked.
Loreto had chewed through his wicker cage while the
Johnsons were making reservations on the noon train to their
home at Seaview, Wash.
Despite coaxings from train agents, red caps and spec
tators, the parrot refused to come down.
In Spanish, "bien" means good. The Johnson's have other
ideas. They decided to stay here until Loreto leaves his
perch.
They finally gave up. Loreto didn't, though.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Moves by East and West
Point Toward Hot Problem
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
lid"! KjrplEn Afiatrx AitalyMi
The foreign ministers of the big three western allies Britain,
France and America are meeting in Paris to consider ways and
means of restoring the West German Republic to a place in
Europe's politico-economic sun.
Simultaneously, Soviet Russia has made the intriguing move of
naming her dis- -a
tlnguished Mar- 'Jr Sjf! way ' niore studied counsel,
shal Konstantin " 's recognized that ham
Rokossovsky as cVS stringing Germany also would
minister of de- f. sfvMS Dc hamstringing the rest of Eu
fense in Poland. A TirVM rope.
This appoint-'Ht'JJ
mont rcfarr. s. J Rus'a probably is viewing
ed to In diplo- J ' A'jW the situation largely from a dif
matic quarteri '. , "yS ferent standpoint,
in Washington JSlST Jr I Eastern Gorman isn't stus
as a proconsul- XmjiimJLX crP,iB'e ,0 absorption into the
ship may mean 0tWm M,,k,, Soviet bloc without endless dif
that Moscow is " ficulties. Eastern Germany and
getting ready to withdraw her Western Germany will coalesce
troops from Eastern Germany, In due course unless they are
leaving that partly communized kept down by military strength,
section of the fatherland a theo- That is the nature of the race,
retically "independent" state. Therefore, since there would
be no profit and much pain In
These two developments, trying to digest such an Eastern
while having no direct relation- Germany now, Moscow may plan
ship, strike nie as being cut from on trying to gain favor with
the same piece of cloth. Germany by a military with-
The German problem, as view- drawal.
ed either from east or west, is Diplomatic observers also
a hot chestnut to handle. think Marshal Rokossovsky's
It seems logical to interpret assignment may be to strengthen
the action of the Western powers Russia's military position In Po
as tacit admission that a reha- land, both with the Idea of keep-
billated Germany Is essential to Ing that uneasy nation in hand
this whole story is that al- you cant run out onBpea,;e the
most no one of the many mil
lions of Americans who contri
buted to the Friendship Train
two years ago this month had
any idea it w o u 1 d be recipro
cated. It was hoped, of course, that
American generosity would be
minute the ink is dry on a trea
ty. Peace is just as hard to win
as war, and much less exciting.
For there are no brass bands
playing as we march down the
road to peace.
So perhaps the basic thing to
remember about the two trains
"There is many a boy here to
day who looks on war as all
elorv. but. bovs. It is all hU.
neighbor as thyself." Jesus you can bear this warning voice
Christ. to generations yet to come. I
"All battle is well said to be i00k upon war with horror."
misunderstanding." Carlyle. Gen. Sherman.
"The art of war ... I take to "Little reason is there in
be the highest perfection of arms." Vergil,
human knowledge." Daniel De- "The question of war has be
foe. come the main preoccupation of
"In war, events of importance humanity." William Bolitho.
are the results of trivial causes." . , "War is a biological necessity
Julius Caesar. ... a moral obligation ... an
"Military glory that attrac- indispensable factor in civiliia-
tive rainbow that rises in show- tion." Bernhardi.
ers of blood, that serpent's eye "War is delightful to those
that charms to destroy." Rep. wh0 have had no experience of
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois in it." Erasmus.
1848. "A good war halloweth every
"War should be the only study cause. War and courage have
of a prince. He should consider done more great things than
peace only as a breathing time, charity. . . . War is elevating,
which gives him leisure to con- because the individual dlsaD-
trive, and furnishes ability to pears before the great concep
execute, war plans." Machia- tion of the state." Neltzsche. .
"Mother ... Do not weep . . .
War is kind." Stephen Crane.
"The first casualty when war
comes is truth." Hiram Johnson.
'The gods are on the aide of
appreciated-though there were excnanged between the French
even some skeptics as to that.
But no one had the remotest
dream that several million of the
French people would make the
great effort to load 49 boxcars
with all sorts of paintings, sta
tues, keepsakes and heirlooms crash
btmie ox mem priceless in xerms
of sentiment to send to the
American people.
So, on this Armistice day, the
most important conclusion to be
drawn from this exchange of
two trains between the people
of France and the people of the
United States is that the ordina
ry folks from Kansas to Nor
mandy the folks who have to
go out and do the fighting and
the dying when wars come are
now determined to work at di
plomacy. They don't entirely trust the
and American people is that it
is not difficult for people who
know each other to live in peace
with each other.
France has weathered a Na
poleon, a great revolution, the
of many republics, but
still the people of France remain
our friends because we know
each other. The governments
which sign treaties come and go,
but the people who enforce trea
ties go on forever.
Of course, I am chiefly paid
to pry into cabinet meetings and
report on closed-door sessions,
so this may be boring to some
people.
But anyway I'll try tomorrow
to report on what a great many
Americans are doing individual
ly to help win the peace.
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velli.
"An army is of little value in
the field unless there are wise
counsels at home." Cicero.
"It is not by speeches and res
olutions that the great questions
of the time are decided . . . but the stronger." Tacitus.
by iron and blood." Bismarck. "There never was a good war
"Gold and riches, the chief or a bad peace." Benjamin
causes of wars." Tacitus. Franklin.
"There is no such thing as "Ye shall love peace as a
an inevitable war. If war comes, means to new wars, and the short
it will be from failure of human peace better than the long one."
wisdom." Bonar Law, 1914. Neitzsche.
"For what can war but end- "Love thy neighbor as thy-
less war still breed?" Milton, self." Jesus Christ.
$50 Poorer for 5 Cents
the welfare of Europe
whole.
Just as at the time of World
War 1 British Trimc Minister
Lloyd George's cry of "Hang
the Kaiser" finally died on
desert air, so the angry threats
of reprisals against the in
stigator nf the second World
and of bolstering the western
frontier of the Soviet bloc of
satellities.
In other words, the Soviet Un
ion would be consolidating Its
Eastern bloc In recognition of
the fact that Communist expan
sion westward has been halted
by the Western European re-
World War finally have liven cuvery program.
Governor Gets Stood Up
Hendersonvillc, N. C. (UP) Gov. Kerr Scott couldn't find
his official car so he tried hitchhiking.
Me stood in front of his hotel for 45 minutes without any
success.
Finally the chamber of commerce hailed a car.
BATTLEFIELD TO 'GO UNDER
South to Sacrifice Historic
Remains for Dam Project
Atlanta (UP) Some of the souths most Interesting historic
points will disappear this winter when the gates are closed on
the new Allatoona Dam.
The dam will back water into the picturesque Etowah valley,
scene of important parts of Dixieland history from the American
Revolution until the Civil War.
After December, most of the French, a "Yankee" who fought
area will be at the bottom of the with the Confederates because
reservoir. of his southern-born wife.
Legend has it that two south-
One part of the lake floor will ern Irishmen almost won the Al
contain the remains of the latoona battle by spraying the
South's first iron works. Union men with a pile of junk
It was built by Mark Cooper, iron, fired from a little brass
who fashioned spikes for the cannon. General Sherman,
first railroads, horse shoes for watching the fight from Kene
the Revolutionary Army and saw Mountain, sent word to
war tools for the Confederate "hold the fort, for I am coming."
Army. Graves of the Cooper and inspired the hymn of that
family have been removed to a title,
place that will be above the wa-
ter line. Also In the valley are the Eto-
Also to be submerged is the wah Mounds and two stately pre
Civll War battlefield where Vn- war homes,
ion forces erected the "Star Re- The Kenesaw Mountain Histo
doubt" fort after the Battle of rical association recently spon
Atlanta. It was built to protect sored tours and lectures in the
supply lines from rebel troops area which soon cannot be vis
commanded by Gen. Samuel G. itcd without a diving suit.
Van Nuys, Calif. VP) Leonard Collen is $30 poorer be
cause he tried to save a woman five cents.
Said James Smith, parking-meter inspector, in municipal
court:
Collen told a woman he'd show her how to beat the
meter and banged it with his hand until it showed an
hour's free parking. Smith called police. Collen pleaded
guilty to a charge of meter-tampering.
The fine was $50.
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